Pointsec Launches Full-Disk Encryption For Linux Systems

The product is meant to ensure an entire hard drive's data can be encrypted in real time and only accessed by authorised users. A full-disk end-user software encryption product for Linux was launched on Monday by security software company Pointsec. Full-disk encryption protects all data on the hard disk including the operating system, system files, and "supposedly deleted files", the company claims.. Pointsec is pitching the product — Pointsec for Linux — at "large technology and telecommunications corporations needing to protect intellectual property stored on laptop and desktop computers".

Many of those that used the software during its "successful" beta programme have chosen to "deploy to a larger user community due to support for multiple users and groups on standard Linux kernels," the company said in a statement. Pointsec would not release any details of the customers.

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